Greywell or Grewell, Hampshire

Historical Description

Greywell or Grewell, a parish in Hants, 1 mile W of Odiham, and 1¼ from Hook station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Winchfield; money order and telegraph office, Odiham. Acreage, 876; population, 289. Greywell Hill is a chief residence. The living is a curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Odiham, in the diocese of Winchester. The church is old, possesses an ancient carved rood-loft, and was restored in 1870.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Hampshire
Ecclesiastical parish	Grewell St. Mary
Hundred	Odiham
Poor Law union	Hartley-Wintney

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Greywell or Grewell from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grewell (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Greywell or Grewell are available from a number of sites:

Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
Google Streetview.
National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
OpenStreetMap.
old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.